Posted on 08/30/2009 4:31:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
Never has an administration who had more firepower at their disposal, been set to so totally fail in the next six to eight weeks. It is nearly a foregone conclusion. It is nearly unavoidable. And it defies all logic given the sizable majority the administration has in both houses of Congress.
Since I was the first pundit to predict Obama's presidency (Dec 2006) it behooves me to tell you the course I believe the next few weeks will take and effectively halt the radical transformation that the left appeared unstoppable with only months ago.
1. Health Care's long and painful death.
Barring the existing possibility that the Democrats cram a reform bill down the throats of actively protesting Americans through an ultra-partisan process that would shut out conservatives and Republicans from even being allowed to contribute to the discussion, health care reform is dead. It actually died a good while back when the President decided to pivot and create a new issue that no one had been discussing--health insurance reform. The American people will want to know why we should spend $4 billion to cover everyone in America "efficiently," when we already do so with inefficiencies like people using the emergency room as their general practitioner for $2.5 billion. Deep thinkers on the issue want to know why the President hasn't entertained one item of tort reform--protecting his friends, the trial lawyers--yet is willing to claim that doctors are eager to lop off feet, tonsils, and foreskin just to make a buck.
2. Cap & Trade will be the largest tax increase in American history.
With the 2010 election cycle just around the corner, campaign ads are not far off from being drafted. With Cap & Trade still sitting in legislative limbo, with the President's own advisor--Warren Buffet--now opposing it openly on media, with the 9.12 project in the works in which the largest gathering of anti-tax Americans from the left, right, and middle will be coming to Washington DC on September 12, and with blue dogs getting absolutely hammered in their home districts supporting it, the chance of single-party ram through victory on the matter is not wise. Cap & Trade, if passed, will contribute to unemployment, Wall Street stop and starts, and ultimately reduced treasury revenues. It would serve as the single largest tax increase on the average American in all of American history. Even President Obama admitted as much, predicting that electric bill prices, in his words, would, "skyrocket." Those that have looked at the specifics tell us that the average utility bill in America will go from $167 to $307 per month, per family.
3. Unemployment to remain high.
Now several Washington organizations from left and right, and one of note consisting of both--the Congressional Budget Office, predicts that unemployment will not shrink from the predicted "Obama high" of 8%. Instead, nearly without fail, economists are predicting unemployment at or over 10% for up to the next 24 months. That is nearly 250% the increase in unemployment under Bush for nearly the duration of his two-term presidency. If people were working, higher taxes and possible new health care entitlements could be considered, but without them working it is political suicide for Democrats to even think of it.
4. Obama's integrity tarnished in August.
Not a great deal has been made of the whoppers that the President has been spewing while the Federal Government has been in recess, but it is worth noting that many more people than I had previously realized have notice the President "exaggerating" badly in his talks on health care. For instance confusing he actual $500 physicians get to amputate a foot as opposed to the $50,000 that he claimed they got. He has shown an utter disregard for the reputation of those he talks about, the "facts" he uses to make his argument, and is highly overly optimistic about the results of his policies. Long story short, at the beginning of the summer Americans mostly trusted him, his passion index was at +10, he heads into the fall at -14.
5. A $3 trillion dollar budget.
New spending for this and that sure added up. And that brings me to number 6.
6. A coming middle class tax hike.
They will hem and haw. There will be an official, and ever arrogant Robert Gibbs explanation from the White House Press room as to why they must to do this to be "good stewards" and to be a "responsible administration" that, "pays as it goes." But the truth is, in order to pay for everything they've promised and budgeted for, a tax is looming for small businesses and working families that President Obama promised would never come. And as an aside, he was going to break that promise all along. Because the minute the "Bush tax relief" runs out in 2010, middle class taxes would be going up in an "Obama administration." Hence fundamentally Obama's "not a single dime" pledge on the campaign trail was bollocks start to finish.
Of course the President, the Democrats, the left, and Congressional leadership could surprise me. They could show up in September and endorse the Coburn health care bill in the U.S. Senate and swipe the credit for it. They could show up next week and fight with all their might to not allow the tax rates to skyrocket in 2010. They could decide to scrap Cap & Trade and re-think the use of public money for true job-based economic stimulation.
But I'm not holding my breath, and I'd advise you against it as well.
They've awakened the American worker, the American small-business owner, and the American voter.
All three of which are now wondering aloud, "What on earth have we done?"
It won’t be hard for the Democrats.
They can do what they do best with impunity.
They have [or will have] the “justice” department, the Courts, and ACORN on their side.
Within two years, people who believe like I believe will either be dead or in prison. I will be dead because I wll not live as a governmetal slave.
DREAM ON.
Such cluelessness is beginning to be in the minority, if it isn’t already, hereon.
Excellent points.
I wonder how many of the rumors are true about Russians, Eastern Germans, even Chinese etc. are already sequestered in remote military bases . . . ready to fill their role.
Post 99 is frightening....and I believe it to be true.
I have seen these same connections, although not in person like you did.
Absolutely amazing.
Did anyone read about the Venona Project and the declassified doc’s that clearly showed how thoroughly communists had infiltrated our government?
I suppose much of the world today seems tinfoilish, to the plodding and dullwitted.
And, I guess it’s just sort of inexplicably “off” somehow, for those accustomed to having their heads up their backsides.
Well put.
Why do you suppose . . .
1. folks don’t read the quotes of our leaders the last 100 years affirming your points:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81
2. Or, even if they read some of them, they dismiss them as nonsense.
Boggles my mind.
When folks have the rank, position, money, power to make such things happen and the record shows a clear progression of increasing amounts of those goals being reached . . . all that in the public domain—more in the under the table stuff
and folks STILL refuse to see the evidence in neon writing on every other wall . . .
delusion is the only rational explanation. Willfully blind delusion.
INDEED.
I avoid his image etc. except in the satirical posters as much as I can get away with.
INDEED:
You are NOT paranoid. These thugs don’t plan to carry through with the 2010 elections. It’s all planned. They feel untouchable and unless the entire country together with the Military rise up and physically remove them, they will stay just where they are for as long as the eye can see. It was a very bad move America and the consequences are going to be terrible. There will be NO easy way out of this. CO
ASTUTE OBSERVATIONS AND CONJECTURES, IMHO.
thx.
INDEED.
INDEED.
GREAT ANALYSIS.
THANKS.
“I believe we are up against True EVIL.”
I agree there is an omnious dark power involved in all of this. I never thought I would live to see the day. There is only one thing to do Stand and Fight!
ASTUTE OBSERVATIONS AND CONJECTURES, IMHO. thx.
Canadian Outrage,
You may have it exactly right but all I know for sure is that however it plays out it is going to be horrific. CO
Thank you, both. As I said, I pray I'm 180-degree-wrong.
“If the GOP had any REAL leadership they would bounce that doddering old fool out of the Party”
Yes; McCain needs to be voted out in 2010. Every GOPRINO who spoke at the Kennedy memorial or funeral also needs to GO AWAY FOREVER! Vote the panty-waists out and vote in candidates who actually love America — for a change.
That's exactly what they plan to do. They are calling it "reconciliation. They only need 218 votes in the House and have 256 seats, add in a few RINOS or without them, and even with Blue Dog "defections", Nancy gets a win. Under "reconciliation", they'd only need 50 votes in the Senate, they have, including the "independents" but not the RINOS, 59 votes.
Then it will on to "cap and trade", using the same methodology.
If I'm correct, about those two passing, and author incorrect, and we fail to stop this juggernaught, we'll be lucky to have elections in 2010. Even more lucky to have them in 2012.
After all: "Never Let a Good Crisis got to waste", said White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to the New York Times.
Thanks for your kind reply.
That an taking us off the gold standard.
While at church this morning, the pastor brought up a name that I wasn’t familiar with. Viktor Frankl. The pastor talked about Germany and the concentration camps and what a hero Viktor was.
I had to come home and look him up on the net to learn more. I thought perhaps we could learn something from him to help us understand and deal with our current issues.
According to the internet, Viktor Frankl often said that even within the narrow boundaries of the concentration camps he found only two races of men to exist: decent and unprincipled ones. These were to be found in all classes, ethnicities, and groups.
I would have to say I agree with him for the most part on that.
INDEED.
Basically his
MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING documents that folks who found, created, even imagined some MEANINGFULNESS to their meager existence in the camps . . . survived.
Those who did not, did not survive.
Thanks for reminding me of him.
He was a Jewish psychiatrist. Quite perceptive.
God’s best to you and yours.
That’s an insult to wolves, which after all are just dogs with a bit of an attitude.
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